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Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait for a long-period comet to arrive in the inner solar system then set off on ...

Two enormous space rocks have slammed together in a nearby planetary system, and for the first time astronomers have watched ...

The primate visual system is broadly organized into two segregated pathways, a ventral stream that includes areas of temporal cortex and is involved in object vision and a dorsal stream that includes ...

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A team of researchers specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile autonomous robots map their environments and determine their locations. Now these ...

The visitor from the stars, designated 3I/Atlas, is likely the largest yet detected, and has been classified as a comet, or cosmic snowball. "It looks kind of fuzzy," Peter Veres, an astronomer with ...

In a cosmic version of the old needle-in-a-haystack finding, astronomers have spotted an object less than a mile wide that is 4.2 billion miles away, in the outer solar system. The object is part of ...

For IT professionals used to working with traditional file systems for their entire careers, object-based storage is like a whole new dimension they never knew existed. The concept of object storage ...

Astronomers have spotted the second object ever known to visit our solar system from another star system. The object is expected to fly near Mars in October. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) ...